forthcoming events / Conferences

2010 March Bodleian Exhibition and Workshop: Indian Traces in Oxford, 1 March 2010 Convocation House, Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK Workshop: 2-6p.m. Reception in Divinity School: 6-7.30 p.m. More information at www.open.ac.uk/arts/south-asians-making-britain. To register your interest in attending this event, please email Sumita Mukherjee at sumita.mukherjee@ell.ox.ac.uk with ‘Indian Traces’ in the subject title.   Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: Mustapha Pasha  ‘After Imperial Reason: Gandhi and the New Cosmopolitanism’ 3 March 2010 Senior Common Room, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmith, London, UK 5-6:30 p.m. | For more information contact s.seth@gold.ac.uk | http://www.gold.ac.uk/postcolonial-studies/   Ngugi wa Thiong’o at the Library Theatre, 6 March 2010 Birmingham‏, UK More info: http://livebrum.co.uk/2010/03/06/an-audience-with-ngugi-wa-thiong-o  Film Screenings: India's Africans, 9 and 16 March 2010 Senate House, Malet Street, London, UK Contact: Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk Conference: Other People's Pain, 19-20 March 2010 The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, UK Site: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1154/   Good of Criticism, the Value of Literary Studies Conference, 19-20 March 2010 University of Reading‏, UK View programme and register now at: www.reading.ac.uk/english/aboutus/deal-literaryconference2010.aspx | For further information, contact: j.f.cox@reading.ac.uk The Invention of Legacy: A Tribute to Hena Maes-Jelinek, 24 – 26 March 2010 Cumberland Lodge, Great Windsor Park, Windsor, (London area), UK The deadline for registration: 1 February 2010 | Programme: http://www.aclals.ulg.ac.be/invention_of_legacy.html | Contact: Bénédicte Ledent B.Ledent@ulg.ac.be. April  The Modern History of the British Abroad, 1-2 April 2010 Newcastle University, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 18 January 2010 Contact: Dr Martin Farr at martin.farr@ncl.ac.uk  and Dr Xavier Guégan at xavier.guegan@ncl.ac.uk   ACLA, Cultures of Migration: Local Cosmopolitanisms, 1-4 April 2010 New Orleans, US Deadline to submit proposals: November 13, 2009 Where to submit: directly to http://www.acla.org/submit/index.phpFor more information on the conference, please visit the official conference website at http://www.acla.org/acla2010. Please note that paper proposals must be submitted through the conference website. For questions about the panel, please contact the seminar organizers: Marika Preziuso, Birbeck, University of London (marika.preziuso@googlemail.com) Annedith Schneider, Sabanci University schneider@sabanciuniv.edu) ACLA, Panel: ‘Jazz and Communication. Towards a Creolization of the Philosophy of Language’, 1-4 April 2010 New Orleans, Louisiana, US Click here to submit a paper proposal (250 words) before 13 November 2009.  Find the seminar webpage here:  http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?p=462 Caribbean Enlightenment Conference, 8-10 April 2010‏ University of Glasgow, Scotland Deadline for Abstracts: 1 December 2009. Contact: Lorna Burns and Michael Morris at caribbeanenlightenment@googlemail.com  Transcultural Mappings: Emerging Issues in Comparative, Transnational and Area Studies, 9-11 April 2010 Eastern Ave Complex, University of Sydney, Australia Deadline for paper or panel proposals:  30 November 2009. If you wish your paper to be considered for refereed publication, it should be submitted by 1 March 2010. Contact: tcm.10@usyd.edu.au   NeMLA, Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention, 7-11 April 2010‏ Montreal, Quebec, Canada The full Call for Papers will be available in June at www.nemla.org; 2010 NeMLA membership is required, and abstract deadline for most sessions is 30 September 2009.  The Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA): Round Table Session ‘Where Are We Now? The Evolution of Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies’ 7-11 April, 2010 Montreal, Canada Deadline for Abstracts: 30 September 2009 Contact: Sophie Lavin blavin@optonline.net Fashioning the Neo-Victorian. Iterations of the Nineteenth Century in Contemporary Literature and Culture, 8-10 April 2010 University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Deadline for Abstracts: 1 November 2009 Contact: Dr Nadine Boehm (nadine.boehm@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de); Anne Enderwitz (anne.enderwitz@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de); Dr Susanne Gruss (susanne.gruss@angl.phil.uni-erlangen.de) Site: http://neovictorian-conference.susannegruss.de/  Gujarat Studies Association Conference, 9-10 April, 2010 SOAS, University of London, London, UK Gujarat Studies Association & SOAS-UCL Centre for Excellence in ‘Languages of the Wider World’Submissions are also encouraged from post-graduate students.  A limited number of student bursaries are available for Master’s level, doctoral and post-doctoral candidates presenting papers at the conference.  For further details, please visit the GSA website: www.gujaratstudies.org, www.gujaratstudies.org The Abstract Submission form can be found at the GSA website: www.gujaratstudies.org, www.gujaratstudies.org,  and the CETL website: www.lww-cetl.ac.uk. Deadline for Abstracts: 19 October 2009  Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in South African Novel, 8-11 April 2009‏ University of Vienna, Austria Conference Site: http://anglistik.univie.ac.at/research-projects/sanovel/saconference/ The Cape & the Cosmopolitan: Reading Zoë Wicomb, 14-16 April 2010 University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Deadline for Abstracts: 5  December 2009 to Wicombconference@sun.ac.za The conference website is currently under development and can be accessed at: http://sun025.sun.ac.za/portal/page/portal/Arts/Departments/english/news_activities/Tab4 or via “News & Activities” on http://www.sun.ac.za/english. Postcolonialism and Islam, 16 - 17 April 2010 University of Sunderland, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 30 October 3009 Contact: Dr Geoffrey Nash (geoff.nash@sunderland.ac.uk), or Dr Sarah Hackett (sarah.hackett-1@sunderland.ac.uk)  Site: http://www.naps-online.org/?cat=17   Political Islam week, ‏19-23 April 2010 School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, UK Programme of events http://www.soas.ac.uk/enterprise/political_islam  | Contact Dr David Harris on dh16@soas.ac.uk. Exotism / the Exotic, 21-22 April 2010 Beni Mellal, Morocco Deadline of Abstracts: 1 December 2009 Contact: Cherki Karkaba at cherkikarkaba@yahoo.fr / Mohamed-Sghir Syad anbmss@gmail.com   May 5th International Conference on African Studies. Viva Africa 2010. Power and Powerlessness in Africa, 6 - 5 May 2010 Metropolitan University Prague, Department of Politics, University of Hradec Králové and Department of Anthropology and History, University of West Bohemia, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Deadline for Abstracts: 10 February, 2010 | Full-length papers have to be submitted by 31 May 2010 | Contact: vivaafrica2010@gmail.com. Pakistan Workshop, Margins and Marginality: Pakistani State and Societies, 7-9 May 2010 Rook Howe, the Lake District, UK For more information email: PakistanWorkshop@gmail.com 11th Anniversary Researching Africa Day Workshop: Day: Predictability and Unpredictability in Africa, 15 May 2010 African Studies Centre, Oxford, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 15 March 2010 | Contact: Elizabeth Cooper: elizabeth.cooper@sant.ox.ac.uk and Michelle Osborn: michelle.osborn@exeter.ox.ac.uk. Workshop at the University of Cambridge: Ideas of India in Britain 1857-1947, 14-15 May 2010 University of Cambridge, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 31 January 2010 Please send abstracts and direct any enquiries to: Mishka Sinha: mishka.sinha@gmail.com and Tom Green: tg245@cam.ac.uk. Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland In conjunction with the Waterford Institute of Technology 15th Biennial Conference: Canada and the World: Yesterday and Today, 14-16 May 2010 Waterford, Ireland Contact: Elizabeth.Tilley@nuigalway.ie and codowdsmyth@wit.ie Deadline for Abstracts: 15 December 2009. The Conference will be held in Waterford City at the Waterford Institute of Technology. Check the ACSI website for updated information: www.canadianstudiesireland.com Postgraduate Conference: 'Pharmakon: Literature and Violence', 20 May 2010 University of Kent, School of English, Kent, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 20 February 2010. Contact: Filippo, Bahriye, or Qing at: kent.pgconf@googlemail.com, fm73@kent.ac.uk, or k63@kent.ac.uk.The programme will be available at the conference website: www.kent.ac.uk/english. Postgraduate Conference: Framing the Self: Anxieties of Identity in Literature and Culture, 1800 to the Present Day, 21 May 2010 University of Portsmouth, UK Conference website: www.port.ac.uk/pgconference/ Deadline for Abstracts: 31 January 2010Contact conference organisers, Jon Evans, Lisa Felstead and Katrina Morgan at: cslpgconf@port.ac.uk Africa: Cultural Translations, 21-22 May 2010 Lancaster University, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 31 January 2010 | Contact: Charlotte Baker c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk. After the Gold Rush: Economic Crisis and Consequences, 27 – 28 May 2010 University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Deadline for Abstracts: 25 February 2010 | Conference Site: http://vefsetur.hi.is/afterthegoldrush/ June  15th Triennial ACLALS Conference 'Strokes Across Cultures', 6-11 June 2010 Nicosia, Cyprus Deadline for Abstracts: 31 August 2009 Contact: info@cyprusconferences.orgSite: http://cyprusconferences.org/aclals2010/  Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Summer Workshop. Directions in Francophone Postcolonial Studies: The Challenge of a Materialist Critique, 10 June 2010 The University of Liverpool, UK Deadline for proposals: 31 March, 2010 | Contact: Bart Miller (f.b.miller@liverpool.ac.uk) Dissident Citizenship: Queer Postcolonial Belonging, 10-11 June, 2010 ‏University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Deadline for abstracts: 31st December 2009 Contact: Dr Shamira A. Meghani s.a.meghani@sussex.ac.uk AEGIS, Africa-Europe Group of Interdisciplinary Studies, 7-13 June 2010 Cortona, Tuscany Summer school designed for advanced Ph.D. students in African Studies. For information on AEGIS: www.aegis-eu.org. | More on Summer School:M. Cristina Ercolessi mcercolessi@unior.it (staff) Antonio Pezzano pezzanoan@yahoo.com (staff) | More on Cortona: www.cortona.it, orCortona Sviluppo (Ms Rita Santiccioli) corsvil@tin.it Sixth Galway Conference on Colonialism, Education and Empire, 24-26 June 2010‏ Dublin, Ireland Deadline for Abstracts: 31 January 2010. Contact: Fiona Bateman and Muireann O’Cinneide at www.conference.ie The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition, 28 June - 1 July 2010 Swansea, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 30 September 2009. Contact: author-translator@swan.ac.uk Site: www.author-translator.net   July  What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say, 3-5 July 2010 ‏University of York, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 1 October 2009 Questions and queries can be sent to the organizing committee: Ziad Elmarsafy (ze500@york.ac.uk); Anna Bernard (ab609@york.ac.uk); David Attwell (da506@york.ac.uk); Stuart Murray (S.F.Murray@leeds.ac.uk); Eleanor Byrne (E.Byrne@mmu.ac.uk).      Scholarly Networks in the British Empire, Transnational & Imperial Connections After 1850, 5 – 6 July 2010 Wadham College, Oxford, UK Submission of proposals for papers: 31 December, 2009 Tamson Pietsch tamson.pietsch@new.ox.ac.uk BCLA XII International Conference: Archive, 5-‏8 July 2010 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 18 December 2009. Contact: archive@kent.ac.uk Sites: www.kent.ac.uk/secl/archive and www.bcla.org    Third Biennial International Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network, Contemporary Women's Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies, 7-9 July 2010 San Diego, Texas, US Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2009 The conference Web site, still under construction, can be found at: www.cwwn.sdsu.edu Contact: Dr. Edith Frampton eframpto@mail.sdsu.edu and Anne Donadey adonadey@mail.sdsu.edu.    Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire, 1895-1939 and 1939-1965, London 8- 9 July 2010 and Pittsburgh 25 -26 September 2010 Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2009 | Contact: Lee Grieveson at l.grieveson@ucl.ac.uk Recycling Myths, Inventing Nations, 14-16 July 2010 ‏University of Wales Conference Centre, Gregynog, Powys, Wales, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2009 Contact: myth2010@aber.ac.uk Site: www.aber.ac.uk/myth2010 Reading Conflict - Open University Postgraduate Conference, 19 July 2010 ‏Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, London WC1, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 19 April 2010 Contact: Ole Birk Laursen at O.B.Laursen@open.ac.uk   August  The XIXth Congress of International Comparative Literature Association, 'Expanding the Frontiers of Comparative Literature', 15 - 21 August 2010 Seoul, Korea Site: http://www.icla2010.org/   10th ESSE Conference: The Enemy Within: Cultures of Terror in South Asian Literature and Film, 24-28 August, 2010 University of Turin, Italy Deadline for Abstracts: 15 December 2009 Contact: Dr Stephen Morton, Senior Lecturer at: s.c.morton@soton.ac.uk / Dr Pascal Zinck, Associate Professor at: cap.zinck@wanadoo.fr / Dr Veronica Thompson, Associate Professor at: thompson@athabascau.ca Site: http://www.unito.it/esse2010/home/index.php?contenuto=home Women's Memory-Work: Gendered Dilemmas of Social Transformation, 24-26 August 2010 University of Limerick, Ireland Deadline for Abstracts: 16 April 2010 Contact: womensmemory@ul.ie | Site: http://www.ul.ie/isks/news.html September   Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Conference: Geographies of Black Internationalism, 1-3 September 2010 London, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 12 February 2010 | Contact: Daniel Whittall at d.j.whittall@rhul.ac.uk. Texting Obama, 7-10 September 2010 ‏Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Deadline for Abstracts: 26 March 2010. Contact: textingobama@mmu.ac.uk Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain, 1870–1950, 13-14 September 2010 British Library Conference Centre, London, UK This conference arises out of the 3-year AHRC-funded project ‘Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870–1950’. Please see the project website for further details: www.open.ac.uk/arts/south-asians-making-britain. Deadline for Abstracts: 30 September 2009 Contact: Send abstracts to Dr Florian Stadtler on f.c.stadtler@open.ac.uk, with ‘MB conference’ in the subject line.  21st Century European Literatures, 21st-Century European Literature: Mapping New Trends, 15-17 September 2010 ‏University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK Deadline for Submissions: 1 September 2009 See link for more information: http://www.st-drews.ac.uk/modlangs/media/CFP21stEnglish.doc    African Studies Association UK Biennial 2010 Conference, 16 – 19 September 2010 University of Oxford, Oxford, UK If you would like to suggest a series of panels or theme, please contact David Kerr, d.kerr@bham.ac.uk. Registration for the conference will use the same online system and be available from January 2010. https://asauk.conference-services.net/authorlogin.asp?conferenceID=1897&language=en-uk   Children and War: Past and Present, 30 September – 2 October 2010 University of Salzburg, Austria Deadline for Abstracts: 31 December 2009 / Contact: J.D.Steinert@wlv.ac.uk October  Freud After Derrida, 6-9 October 2010 The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada‏ For information, see the Mosaic website at: www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic. The site will be available (and linked to the Mosaic website) by summer 2009. Electronic submissions preferred (Rich Text Format). Please direct enquiries and proposals to: mosaconf@cc.umanitoba.ca.   4th International SELICUP Conference, Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture: Spaces and Contexts, 20-22 October 2010 University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca, SpainProposals are to be submitted by 15 May 2010. Conference website www.selicup2010.org November An Independent England and its Literature, 6 November 2010Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UKDeadline fro Abstracts 1 April 2010 | Contact: Michael Gardiner and Claire Westall with the subject line – ‘An Independent England’ using C.L.Westall@warwick.ac.uk. Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies, 19-20 November 2010 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Deadline for Abstracts: 15 January 2010 / Contact: Sarah Brophy brophys@mcmaster.ca December The Tenth International Symposium on Comparative Literature “Marginalised”, 7-9 December, 2010 Department of English Language and Literature, Cairo University, Egypt Deadline for abstracts: February 28, 2010 / Contact: cairosymposium@yahoo.com 2011 April EACLALS Conference 2011: 'Under Construction: Gateways and Walls', 26-30 April 2011‏ Istanbul, Turkey Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2010 |Contact: EACLALS2011@googlemail.com | Check the EACLALS website at http://www.eaclals.org for subscription rates and for further information.

research centres and projects

African Studies Association http://www.africanstudies.org/   African Studies Association of the UK http://www.asauk.net/     British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS) http://www.canadian-studies.net   British Comparative Literature Association http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/bcla/index.htm   Britain Zimbabwe Society http://www.britain-zimbabwe.org.uk/   Center for the Study and Research of African Women in Cinema http://www.africanwomenincinema.org/AFWC/Home.html   Centre for African Studies, Cambridge http://www.african.cam.ac.uk/   Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, School of English, University of Kent http://www.kent.ac.uk/english/staff-research/centres/poco/postcolonialindex.html   Centre for Contemporary Fiction and Narrative, University of Northampton http://twe02.build.sitebuilderservice.com/trellix/sitebuilder/f_edit_page.html   Centre for Global and Transnational Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London http://cgtp.rhul.ac.uk/   Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/postcolonial-studies/   Contemporary Women's Writing Network http://www.cwwn.org.uk/   Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark http://www.ruc.dk/cuid_en/   European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) http://www.eaclals.org/   Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/ferguson-centre/events.htm   Framing Muslims http://framingmuslims.org   HEBN Publishers http://hebnpublishers.com   Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC), Royal Holloway, University of London http://www.rhul.ac.uk/research/harc/main.html   Indian Ocean: Narratives in Literature and Law, University of Southampton http://www.soton.ac.uk/indianocean/   Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Leeds http://www.leeds.ac.uk/icps/    International Journal of Francophone Studies http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=13682679    Katherine Mansfield Society http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/   Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950 http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/south-asians-making-britain/index.html   Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings http://www.movingworlds.net   Northern Association for Postcolonial Studies (NAPS) http://www.naps-online.org/   New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) http://www.nzsa.co.uk/   Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia‏ http://www.postcolonialtranslation.net/    Postgraduate English, A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English (UK) http://www.dur.ac.uk/postgraduate.english/journal1.htm   Royal Holloway Postcolonial Research Group (RHPRG) http://www.cameronius.com/helen/RHPRG/   School of Oriental and African Studies: Language Centre http://www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre/   Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies http://www.sfps.ac.uk/   Urban Salon http://www.theurbansalon.org   Wasafiri: Magazine of International Contemporary Writing http://www.wasafiri.org/

reading groups

Birkbeck, Postcolonial Studies Reading Group http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/research/research_seminar/psrg   King’s College, Reading Group on Postcolonial Medievalism http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/french/news/readinggroup   Leeds University, ICPS Postgraduate Reading Group http://www.leeds.ac.uk/icps/news.htm   Newcastle University, Postcolonial Research Group http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/postcolonial/index.htm   Open University, Post-Colonial Literatures Research Group http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/Literature/post-colonial/seminars.htm   Stirling University, Postcolonial Studies Reading & Film Group http://brian-rock.blogspot.com/2008/02/postcolonial-studies-reading-film-group.html